{"id":461,"date":"2024-11-04T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2025-05-08T18:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:59:46","slug":"sextus-empiricus-160-210-ad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/key-players-in-the-ancient-period\/sextus-empiricus-160-210-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sextus Empiricus\n160-210 AD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sextus Empiricus was a Greek physician and philosopher. He was a proponent of philosophical skepticism, in which the philosopher withholds judgment about whether an external reality exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While others categorized Sextus as being of the empiric school of medicine, he classified himself in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/key-players-in-the-ancient-period\/sextus-empiricus-160-210-ad\/methodist-school-of-medicine\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"611\">methodist school<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sextus has three surviving works, one on the Outlines of Pyrrhonism (consisting of three books on the practical and ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360-275 AD), Against the Dogmatists (consisting of five books addressed to issues raised by Logicians, the Physicists, and the Ethicists); and Against the Professors (consisting of six books critiquing professors in the arts and sciences including grammar, rhetoric, geometry, mathematics, astrology and music).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writings about Sextus Empiricus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Floridi, Luciano (2002). Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, American Philological Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Review of book by Luciano Floridi on Sextus Empiricus <a href=\"http:\/\/ccat.sas.upenn.edu\/bmcr\/2002\/2002-08-28.html\">http:\/\/ccat.sas.upenn.edu\/bmcr\/2002\/2002-08-28.html<\/a> Retrieved on March 1, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sextus Empiricus was a Greek physician and philosopher. He was a proponent of philosophical skepticism, in which the philosopher withholds judgment about whether an external reality exists. While others categorized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/3086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}